PAUL & MAGGIE MURDAUGH: South Carolina vs. Alex Murdaugh for Double Homicide of wife & son *GUILTY*

This case is being kept pretty quiet, no major details released to speak of (other than it does say there were two different guns used), but no info regarding who found them, who called 911, very little else.

Of interest, the grandfather died just a few days after these murders and it sounds as if he was ill from various articles so probably not unexpected. I think of the typical motives, did grandpa have a big estate? How big in the overall family of grandpa's on down? They sound like a pretty well known family and a powerful one in their state, more on that in the article.

Questions abound in SC Murdaugh killing. Among them: Should prosecutor step aside?

Several days after two members of a prominent Hampton County family were fatally shot, questions about what happened still vastly outnumber answers.

www.postandcourier.com

 

[noZme]

I apologize for the mess I made posting above. My mouse is acting up & it's difficult for me to copy, paste, delete & edit with the fingertip pad.

 

[kdg411]

I apologize for the mess I made posting above. My mouse is acting up & it's difficult for me to copy, paste & delete with the fingertip pad.

I'll take care of it, no worries.

 

[Guess Who]

https://www.fitsnews.com/2022/01/19/cant-afford-underwear-4-mayonnaise-alex-murdaughs-commissary-receipts-tell-different-story/

Can’t Afford Underwear? $4 Mayonnaise? Alex Murdaugh’s Commissary Receipts Tell Different Story​

Also, he’s been moisturizing …

Presented with a bit of levity, the actual deposits & purchases of Murdaugh's prison commissary account.

"I know you’re dying to know the answer to one of the most quintessential questions in the world of men so I’ll get that out of the way now.
The answer is boxers.

I’d rather not be talking with you about the man’s underwear, but his attorney’s nauseating mention of them in court last week and his outrageous claim that Murdaugh can’t afford a new pair has left me no choice."

Who Is Giving Him His Commissary Money?​

He has received …

• $100 from his attorney Jim Griffin
• $188.90 from his sister, Lynn Goettee
• $106.95 from “Elizabeth A. Murdaugh,” which could be his mother (Elizabeth Alexander Murdaugh) or his sister-in-law “Elizabeth Anne Arnett Murdaugh“
• $128.95 from “John Murdaugh,” which could be his brother John Marvin Murdaugh.
• $106.95 from “Randy Murdaugh Murdaugh,” which is likely his brother Randolph Murdaugh IV, who appears to be giving money TO a person he is currently suing for $90,000 in unpaid debts. Randy Murdaugh filed the suit against Alex Murdaugh in early November and less than 24 hours later Alex Murdaugh had filed a “confession of judgment,” which would effectively move Randy to the front of the line to get repaid. The move was seen as a possible maneuver to help shift around some of Alex’s assets ahead of what will likely be a long line of people owed money.

At Richland County detention center, there is no weekly limit on how much money can be deposited into an inmate‘s account, according to the county’s public information officer. But there does appear to be a limit on how much an inmate can spend there.

And that limit seems to be $60 a week.

Most weeks, Murdaugh appears to be taking full advantage of that limit:

• Oct. 21: $57.59
• Oct. 21 (there were two receipts for this date): $34.89
• Oct. 28: $49.49
• Nov. 4: $58.77
• Nov. 10: $58.58
• Nov. 18: $59.34
• Nov. 24: $59.97
• Dec. 9: $59.42

Now let’s look at what he’s spent that money on …

The Man Needs ‘Clean Underwear’​

On Jan. 10, in his effort to get the $7 million bond that was set a month earlier reduced to something “more reasonable” like five-figures and the option to pay up to 10 percent, Harpootlian told the court that Murdaugh was NOT engaging in financial plotting in jail and that there were very good explanations for what Murdaugh said in the calls.

For instance, Harpootlian said, when Murdaugh instructed a family member to deposit money into another inmate’s account, he was merely devising a workaround to the jail’s rules on a $60 weekly spending limit at the canteen.

In the words of at least one Twitter user, even in jail Murdaugh appears to be (allegedly) laundering money … according to what his attorney said, anyway.

During this attempt to explain Murdaugh’s apparent financial machinations on the jailhouse phone, an either amused or enraged Harpootlian (hard to tell which) gave, perhaps, (no, definitely), “too much information.”

“He’d like to get some more underwear,” Harpootlian said. “This is a guy who’s rolling-in-the-cash rich? Asking his his relatives to write checks to a canteen account so he can buy clean underwear? No, this is not.”

Since he was first incarcerated in Columbia through Dec. 9, Murdaugh has purchased exactly one set of boxers (listed as “2XL” … it’s not clear whether this is one pair of XXL boxers or two pairs of XL; either way … oh my). That purchase was for $4.85.

He first bought said pair of boxers on Nov. 18, 2021, one solid month after arriving at the jail.

This means that in the more than seven weeks he was in jail before Dec. 9, he spent $438.05 at the commissary.

At the Jan. 10 hearing, Harpootlian also maintained that Murdaugh HAD TO come up with a workaround to the $60 a week spending rule because he was being exploited by that predatory, profiteering, privatized jail business model we’ve all heard about.

He said his client couldn’t buy clean underwear or new shirts because he has been getting bilked to the tune of “three bucks for a packet of salt and pepper, four bucks for mayonnaise, five bucks for ketchup.”

In other words, Murdaugh can’t afford his basic needs because “the cost of condiments.”

Though investigators and the co-receivers have not shed much light on what Alex Murdaugh was doing with the millions he’s alleged to have stolen, I think we can assume there might have been some “issues” when it came to Murdaugh “sticking to his budget” prior to getting arrested.

According to the documents we obtained, the cost of jailhouse condiments is actually:

• 13 cents for a mayonnaise packet
• 35 cents for 10 packets of salt
• 35 cents for 10 packets of pepper
• 31 cents for hot sauce
• 73 cents for 1.5 ounces of ranch dressing

I am unsure what the cost of ketchup is because it doesn’t appear he bought any from Oct. 19 through Dec. 9.

Prior to the revelations this fall that Alex Murdaugh is in incredibly deep trouble, he was very well-liked in many Lowcountry circles and was seen as a generous host, as well as a gregarious and congenial guy, who was always ready to show his family and friends — and his sons’ friends — a large time.

He partied at places like Moselle, the family’s hunting lodge where the double homicide happened; before and after University of South Carolina games in Columbia and beyond; on boats; on the family’s Beaufort County island; at the beach; in the Bahamas; in Key West; and at the annual trial lawyers’ association meeting on Hilton Head Island, where he was spotted at multiple bars smiling and drinking just two months after the murders.
Murdaugh’s commissary receipts show us that the party still continues — with or without attendees. It’s not clear.

During his first six weeks of living behind bars, Murdaugh has purchased:

• 30 packages of Cheez-Its
• 30 packages of Peanut M&Ms
• 22 bags of nacho cheese chips
• 21 containers of soup
• 21 packages of grilled cheese crackers
• 17 bags of ToastChee crackers
• 17 bags of plain chips
• 12 hickory beef sticks
• 12 granola bars
• 9 strawberry Pop-Tarts
• 8 packages of chocolate chip cookies
• 8 Baby Ruth bars
• 8 “Butterscotch”
• 6 packages of “duplex” cookies
• 5 Snickers bars
• 5 bags of barbecue pork skins
• 5 packages of lemon cream cookies
• 5 bags of barbecue chips
• 4 packages of summer sausage
• 4 packets of salted peanuts
• 4 chocolate chip cookies
• 4 iced honey buns
• 4 packages of the Whole Shabang
• 3 packages of Starlight Mints
• 3 beef and cheese sticks
• 2 packages of atomic fireballs
• 2 flour tortillas
• 2 packages of chocolate cupcakes
• 2 bags of Flaming Hot Cheetos
• 1 sleeve of saltines
• 1 package of hot summer sausage
• 1 hot pickle

As Murdaugh told the judge during his Dec. 13 bond hearing for 48 of his 51 charges, he has been working out while in jail and is in “the best shape” of his life.

When not working out, Murdaugh might be catching up with his correspondence using the black Flex pen he bought for 45 cents his first week there. Or maybe he’s using it to fill out the $1.83 crossword puzzle or the $2.25 Sudoku puzzle he bought.

He might be engaging in some serious games of solitaire with the two sets of playing cards he bought for $2.58 a pack

And perhaps, he’s taking up cooking with the two “bowls with lid” that he bought for $1.47 apiece.

By Jan. 10, Murdaugh might have been in sore need of new underwear, but his metaphorical “jail closet” grew steadily over the six or so weeks prior to Dec. 9.

While in jail, Murdaugh has purchased two 2XL T-shirts for $5.80, five pairs of tube socks for $2.32, one XL T-shirt for $4.14, one large T-shirt for $4.14, one “6XL” thermal top for $11.40, one “3XL” thermal top for $8.22, one “3XL” men’s thermal bottoms for $8.22 and one pair of shower shoes for $1.83.

The Other Necessities​

Through Dec. 9, Alex Murdaugh purchased two bars of Irish Spring soap for $1.50 each, three four-ounce bottles of shampoo for $1.30 each and two Speed Sticks for $3.99 apiece.

The week before Thanksgiving, he bought cough drops for $1.65.

He also purchased one “lip therapy” for $1.45.

And a single container of “petroleum jelly” for $1.83.

Stay tuned for more information in the days ahead about Murdaugh’s life in jail.

"in the best shape of his life" with all of that junk food!

 

[GrandmaBear]

They say "when he's not working out" too. Lol. His snacking doesn't seem to indicate what I'd call healthy choices.

He just doesn't get it does he, he has to break the jail rules even at the lowest level he is scheming and laundering money as they said.

His snack list rivals what a five year old would throw in the grocery cart if given free rein.

On a more serious note, the part about his brother suing him for debt owed and yet the brother gave him money does seem like a major work around for the defendant to keep some money from being taken by those he owes and puts a judgment by the brother high on the list. How absolutely dirty. Always looking out for himself and screwing people again that he is already accused of screwing over.

 

[noZme]

Alex Murdaugh has millions in 'protected' assets, but who will be compensated?​

Because of the multiple, and likely multi-million-dollar, civil suits — and concerns from alleged victims that Murdaugh may try to hide or liquidate assets — the courts have ordered that all of Murdaugh’s assets are to be controlled by two co-receivers, South Carolina attorneys John Thomas Lay and Peter McCoy.

Lay and McCoy are court ordered to ascertain all of Murdaugh’s assets and create a settlement fund for any present and future civil claims.

Recent bond hearings before S.C. Grand Jury Presiding Judge Alison Renee Lee have given the public an insight into just what type of assets Murdaugh owns – but access to those assets remains in question.

“The question is, what resources does he have, and what can he post, if he can post anything at all,” said Murdaugh lead attorney Richard Harpootlian during the Jan. 10 virtual hearing on a motion to reduce Murdaugh’s bond.

During the recent hearing, Harpootlian told the court that Murdaugh “can’t even pay his phone bill” and doesn’t even have money to buy underwear while in jail.

The co-receivers have control over all of these assets now, but even they don’t have access to some “protected assets,” Lay said. Retirement funds and funds set aside in a trust are examples of assets that are out of Murdaugh's reach. There are also numerous creditors, the co-receiver added.

Here is a snapshot of Murdaugh’s assets as outlined by Lay:

Murdaugh's current assets:​

• Three bank accounts, containing a total of $10,000 in cash.
• A retirement account worth somewhere between $2.1 and $2.2 million
• An IRA retirement fund worth somewhere between $350,000 and $400,000
• Real estate that Murdaugh has an interest in, along with other individuals, but can’t liquidate without court action, including a hunting club and some “small islands” around Beaufort County. Some of this real estate is owned through LLCs, Lay said.

Property records indicate that Murdaugh is listed as a co-owner of three wooded tracts totaling 30 acres amid the waterways of St. Helena Island. These tracts have a total estimated appraised value of $687,000, Beaufort County public records show.

Murdaugh's future assets:​

• An estate trust that is expected to come to Murdaugh following the June 2021 death of his father, Randolph Murdaugh III. The amount of this trust and when it will transfer to Murdaugh isn’t known at this time, Lay said.
• Probate assets that are expected to come to Murdaugh following the June 2021 death of his wife, Maggie Murdaugh, who was shot and killed at their Colleton County home along with their younger son, Paul.

These assets include a beach house on Edisto Island and the “Moselle” property where Murdaugh was living with his wife and younger son at the time of the double homicide. The Moselle property, which contains 11 parcels of land totaling 1,772.2 acres in both Colleton and Hampton counties, has a total appraised value of $934,800, according to Hampton and Colleton property tax records.

Some of this real estate cannot be disposed of or liquidated without satisfying liens or mortgages, Lay said.

Lay has indicated during bond hearings that even if Murdaugh had liquidated assets to post bond, he and McCoy would “resist that.” Any liquidated assets that Murdaugh receives would likely go into the settlement account.

What happens next? Will all victims be made whole?​

Murdaugh is currently facing seven civil suits, with possibly eight more coming from Bamberg-based attorney Justin Bamberg, who told The Hampton County Guardian he is representing several of Murdaugh’s alleged victims.

Murdaugh has already signed a confession of judgement worth up to $4.3 million, pending court approval, in the case involving the estate of Gloria Satterfield, his late housekeeper, according to attorneys. Murdaugh is currently facing both criminal charges and a civil suit for allegedly stealing insurance money from Satterfield’s adult sons.

Attorney Eric Bland, of Bland Richter LLP, who is representing the Satterfield Estate, said his clients have now reached an estimated $7.5 million in settlements from various other parties allegedly responsible in their case, in addition to Murdaugh’s confession of judgement.

“The Satterfields are doing well, and they feel like they have gotten almost a full cup of justice,” Bland said last week. "So much has taken place by them coming forward. This case has been a serious success and accomplished a great deal.”

In addition to the seven clients that are being represented by Bamberg in pending Murdaugh-related cases, there are more coming forward.

Bland told The Guardian last week that he has picked up more clients that are alleged victims of Murdaugh. Allendale-based attorney Mark Tinsley, who is currently representing the Mallory Beach estate in a wrongful death suit against Murdaugh, told The Guardian last week that he has also retained another alleged victim of Murdaugh’s. Beach is the 19-year-old victim who died in a 2019 boat crash involving Paul Murdaugh.

Alex Murdaugh has millions in 'protected' assets, but who will be compensated?

Alex Murdaugh's assets include retirement funds and an 'island' property in Beaufort County.

www.blufftontoday.com

 

[GrandmaBear]

During the recent hearing, Harpootlian told the court that Murdaugh “can’t even pay his phone bill” and doesn’t even have money to buy underwear while in jail.

Well we now know that if cut out the nacho chips, candy bars and fried pork rinds, he could afford a pair of underwear or even if he just scaled down by one or so on each snack. We also now know that he did buy underwear.

And the phone bill? Well he's not calling his wife or one son nor his father... He may call his attorneys but that can go on their bill to him right? Hmm, how is he paying the attorneys if he can't buy underwear or pay a phone bill... Some of the top defense attorneys in the state from what I've heard...

All of this $$ talk and his continued schemes and the reporting of it (which is good) tends to make people forget for a few moments that his wife and son were murdered. There were rumblings that murder charges may be coming against him and that there is physical evidence/DNA pointing at him... Still waiting for those charges if that is the case...

Words that keep coming to mind in this case... Pure selfishness... Gluttony. Greed. Narcissist (I don't like overuse of these kinds of words but it fits here)... No empathy. No remorse. Familicide. No shame. Corruption... That's just off the top of my head...

I hope they are sure the attorneys they put in charge of his assets have never had any connection or involvement with him in any shady dealing of any type... I imagine they did make sure of this but this does seem to run a bit through and up the food chain there.

Jmo.

 

[noZme]

Power, prestige and privilege: Inside the rise and fall of the Murdaugh dynasty in South Carolina​

interesting history of the family & spotlight cases

Power, prestige and privilege: Inside the rise and fall of the Murdaugh dynasty in South Carolina

Four death investigations loom over the Murdaugh family, including two of their own, Maggie and Paul. And with Alex, not all was as it appeared.

www.augustachronicle.com

 

[kdg411]

Power, prestige and privilege: Inside the rise and fall of the Murdaugh dynasty in South Carolina​

interesting history of the family & spotlight cases

Power, prestige and privilege: Inside the rise and fall of the Murdaugh dynasty in South Carolina

Four death investigations loom over the Murdaugh family, including two of their own, Maggie and Paul. And with Alex, not all was as it appeared.

www.augustachronicle.com

Wow! From your link;

Alex Murdaugh also donated to Dick Harpootlian, the Democratic state senator and lawyer hired to defend his son, Paul, in the deadly boat crash case.

And two years after the crash, it would be Harpootlian who defended Alex Murdaugh. Harpootlian would appear on national television to declare Murdaugh’s innocence in the shootings of his wife and son.

He would be the one attempting to explain what happened the next time a Murdaugh called 911 and said someone had been shot.

*(The ties this family has is ridiculous. It reminds me of the Kennedy's on a smaller scale.)

 

[GrandmaBear]

Wow! From your link;

Alex Murdaugh also donated to Dick Harpootlian, the Democratic state senator and lawyer hired to defend his son, Paul, in the deadly boat crash case.

And two years after the crash, it would be Harpootlian who defended Alex Murdaugh. Harpootlian would appear on national television to declare Murdaugh’s innocence in the shootings of his wife and son.

He would be the one attempting to explain what happened the next time a Murdaugh called 911 and said someone had been shot.

*(The ties this family has is ridiculous. It reminds me of the Kennedy's on a smaller scale.)

I haven't read the link, thanks for the excerpts. Yeah, how can this go on even now? Harpootlian is representing him now, he was the underwear remark and said the price of ketchup in jail was outrageous. It's hilarious and maybe looked at as "showmanship" in court but lies on the smallest level.

With not much time, I have stayed minimally up on this case because from the start, it seemed to be something "else". It is like the Kennedys and such things. It is big but interestingly it still does not get the press one would think it would...

Maybe they don't have Harpootlian on anything and maybe he didn't do anything, no proof I guess so far, but I think he has to represent Murdaugh... It is all a house of cards but will all the big shots fall? Probably not. They SHOULD but will they? I think there's a lot more to the body of this snake... For some reason I keep thinking about Fort whatever it is. I mix two of them up. Fort Hood? Oh it was only her family and the public who wouldn't let it go until finally things were looked at and some heads "rolled" I guess and it has supposedly been addressed and cleaned up BUT we know they took who they had to and left the rest, I'd bet on it, or transferred or quietly retired and more... So many deaths there. Males too...

The two cases are different but they are not in terms of power, government--in that case military...

I didn't realize Harpootlian was part of all you posted, just some.

It's also like Maxwell I think. There are so many people in power or positions I think that have been part of Murdaugh's crimes, at least some, that they worry if they turn on him or get noticed, they are next. Let's face it the man has proven he will throw anyone under the bus to save himself already. Harpootlian is with him for a reason... Big attorney in the state, so far he still is...

*Not saying he is guilty or innocent but that one sure has to wonder...

 

[GrandmaBear]

Scott Reisch/Crime Talk

This one starts with Murdaugh. I was half listening while working on something else. I think if I have it right the Beach family and others from the boating accident are now suing or putting a claim on the Estate of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh to keep it from being drained (my words) or asking a judge to have their claim up against it so money maneuverings by you know who, etc. do not put others in front and let the estate get wiped out/disappear (also my wording). $65 mill or something more newly (I think) filed against Alex Murdaugh.

This is a good one. Scott then touches on Rittenhouse. And then Maxwell/Prince Andrew at about 6 minutes in for that one. I don't always listen to all as no time but I did this one to the end. The remainder is also interesting with other cases and a particularly dumb criminal contestant of the day. I'm also going to post this in Maxwell.

 

[noZme]

​

Good Ol' Boy System:​

In 1993, Alex Started A Brawl At A Strip Club … Then Deputies Drove Him Home​

Stories abound in and around Columbia, Charleston, Beaufort and Hilton Head Island, as well as among law enforcement officers and lawyers, about the scrapes that now-disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh — a son of the final Randolph Murdaugh to hold office as solicitor — would get into …

… and then promptly and proudly get out of because of who his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were.

These stories include tales of alleged bar fights, driving under the influence, asking law enforcement officers “Bo, do you know who I am?,” and being escorted home like a diplomat’s son instead of getting arrested.

In the early morning of Feb. 28, 1993, Alex Murdaugh, now 53, was accused of starting a violent brawl at a strip club on Hilton Head Island.

At least two men were injured in the fight.

Three men were charged with Public Disorderly Conduct.

Alex, who was 25 at the time and enrolled at University of South Carolina School of Law, was one of them.

One of the three men was taken to jail.

The other was allowed to go to the hospital, where a law enforcement officer was awaiting his arrival.

Alex, on the other hand, was driven home to Varnville — a full hour and 20 minutes away from Hilton Head — by a deputy.

The Guy With Red Hair … Refused To Go’​

Around midnight, a group of Alex Murdaugh’s friends went to the bar at Cadillacs Club to order more drinks, but the bartender decided it was time to cut them off.

“They appeared intoxicated, so I refused to serve them,” the 23-year-old bartender wrote in his statement to deputies. “They were somewhat belligerent.”

Immediately after, Alex Murdaugh decided he needed another drink.

“Another gentleman approached the bar — a tall heavy redhead,” the bartender wrote. “He asked for another beer and I refused him service as well because he appeared intoxicated. The redheaded gentleman became abusive and I asked him to leave.”

Alex allegedly wouldn’t go, so the bartender called over two bouncers to escort him out of the club.

The bouncers, both in their early 20s, attempted to remove Alex from the establishment.

“Once the gentleman reached the doors,” one of them wrote about Alex, “he instantly became more aggressive and was asking in certain words to fight.”

{article describes a real old-fashioned barroom brawl}

Alex and the other two men charged that night were scheduled for a hearing on March 29, 1993. The report does not include copies of the tickets that were issued nor does it note the outcomes of the cases.

A background check done on Alex Murdaugh through Nexis noted that the charge was dismissed on March 25, 1993.

Murdaugh graduated from law school just over a year later and was admitted into the South Carolina Bar Association in November 1994.

https://www.fitsnews.com/2022/02/02/in-1993-alex-started-a-brawl-at-a-strip-club-then-deputies-drove-him-home-documents-show/

 

[GrandmaBear]

​

Good Ol' Boy System:​

In 1993, Alex Started A Brawl At A Strip Club … Then Deputies Drove Him Home​

Stories abound in and around Columbia, Charleston, Beaufort and Hilton Head Island, as well as among law enforcement officers and lawyers, about the scrapes that now-disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh — a son of the final Randolph Murdaugh to hold office as solicitor — would get into …

… and then promptly and proudly get out of because of who his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were.

These stories include tales of alleged bar fights, driving under the influence, asking law enforcement officers “Bo, do you know who I am?,” and being escorted home like a diplomat’s son instead of getting arrested.

In the early morning of Feb. 28, 1993, Alex Murdaugh, now 53, was accused of starting a violent brawl at a strip club on Hilton Head Island.

At least two men were injured in the fight.

Three men were charged with Public Disorderly Conduct.

Alex, who was 25 at the time and enrolled at University of South Carolina School of Law, was one of them.

One of the three men was taken to jail.

The other was allowed to go to the hospital, where a law enforcement officer was awaiting his arrival.

Alex, on the other hand, was driven home to Varnville — a full hour and 20 minutes away from Hilton Head — by a deputy.

The Guy With Red Hair … Refused To Go’​

Around midnight, a group of Alex Murdaugh’s friends went to the bar at Cadillacs Club to order more drinks, but the bartender decided it was time to cut them off.

“They appeared intoxicated, so I refused to serve them,” the 23-year-old bartender wrote in his statement to deputies. “They were somewhat belligerent.”

Immediately after, Alex Murdaugh decided he needed another drink.

“Another gentleman approached the bar — a tall heavy redhead,” the bartender wrote. “He asked for another beer and I refused him service as well because he appeared intoxicated. The redheaded gentleman became abusive and I asked him to leave.”

Alex allegedly wouldn’t go, so the bartender called over two bouncers to escort him out of the club.

The bouncers, both in their early 20s, attempted to remove Alex from the establishment.

“Once the gentleman reached the doors,” one of them wrote about Alex, “he instantly became more aggressive and was asking in certain words to fight.”

{article describes a real old-fashioned barroom brawl}

Alex and the other two men charged that night were scheduled for a hearing on March 29, 1993. The report does not include copies of the tickets that were issued nor does it note the outcomes of the cases.

A background check done on Alex Murdaugh through Nexis noted that the charge was dismissed on March 25, 1993.

Murdaugh graduated from law school just over a year later and was admitted into the South Carolina Bar Association in November 1994.

https://www.fitsnews.com/2022/02/02/in-1993-alex-started-a-brawl-at-a-strip-club-then-deputies-drove-him-home-documents-show/

This man just sickens me. A real gem. It sounds like his son (at least the one) was pretty much headed the same way. One wonders what the wife was like to put up with such a type but then he was golden, got out of everything and had power and I guess money...

What sickens me just as much is a system and people in it who do this, allow this, play along and probably receive the same kind of special treatment...

This case, wordy me doesn't even have words. What is there to say, it is all so obvious and just keeps coming and coming...

I am waiting for murder charges though. WHERE ARE THEY? I sure hope there is no one that still will help him get out of anything although I wouldn't count on it. I seriously doubt all the heads will roll that should roll in this...

 

[noZme]

Alex Murdaugh's 74 criminal charges add up, in theory, to 731 years of incarceration​

Alex Murdaugh's 74 criminal charges add up, in theory, to 731 years of incarceration

Here's a track of he complex criminal and civil cases of suspended Hampton, South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh.

news.yahoo.com

 

[Guess Who]

​

Good Ol' Boy System:​

In 1993, Alex Started A Brawl At A Strip Club … Then Deputies Drove Him Home​

Stories abound in and around Columbia, Charleston, Beaufort and Hilton Head Island, as well as among law enforcement officers and lawyers, about the scrapes that now-disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh — a son of the final Randolph Murdaugh to hold office as solicitor — would get into …

… and then promptly and proudly get out of because of who his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were.

These stories include tales of alleged bar fights, driving under the influence, asking law enforcement officers “Bo, do you know who I am?,” and being escorted home like a diplomat’s son instead of getting arrested.

In the early morning of Feb. 28, 1993, Alex Murdaugh, now 53, was accused of starting a violent brawl at a strip club on Hilton Head Island.

At least two men were injured in the fight.

Three men were charged with Public Disorderly Conduct.

Alex, who was 25 at the time and enrolled at University of South Carolina School of Law, was one of them.

One of the three men was taken to jail.

The other was allowed to go to the hospital, where a law enforcement officer was awaiting his arrival.

Alex, on the other hand, was driven home to Varnville — a full hour and 20 minutes away from Hilton Head — by a deputy.

The Guy With Red Hair … Refused To Go’​

Around midnight, a group of Alex Murdaugh’s friends went to the bar at Cadillacs Club to order more drinks, but the bartender decided it was time to cut them off.

“They appeared intoxicated, so I refused to serve them,” the 23-year-old bartender wrote in his statement to deputies. “They were somewhat belligerent.”

Immediately after, Alex Murdaugh decided he needed another drink.

“Another gentleman approached the bar — a tall heavy redhead,” the bartender wrote. “He asked for another beer and I refused him service as well because he appeared intoxicated. The redheaded gentleman became abusive and I asked him to leave.”

Alex allegedly wouldn’t go, so the bartender called over two bouncers to escort him out of the club.

The bouncers, both in their early 20s, attempted to remove Alex from the establishment.

“Once the gentleman reached the doors,” one of them wrote about Alex, “he instantly became more aggressive and was asking in certain words to fight.”

{article describes a real old-fashioned barroom brawl}

Alex and the other two men charged that night were scheduled for a hearing on March 29, 1993. The report does not include copies of the tickets that were issued nor does it note the outcomes of the cases.

A background check done on Alex Murdaugh through Nexis noted that the charge was dismissed on March 25, 1993.

Murdaugh graduated from law school just over a year later and was admitted into the South Carolina Bar Association in November 1994.

https://www.fitsnews.com/2022/02/02/in-1993-alex-started-a-brawl-at-a-strip-club-then-deputies-drove-him-home-documents-show/

of course it was dismissed!

 

[Guess Who]

Alex Murdaugh's 74 criminal charges add up, in theory, to 731 years of incarceration​

Alex Murdaugh's 74 criminal charges add up, in theory, to 731 years of incarceration

Here's a track of he complex criminal and civil cases of suspended Hampton, South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh.

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But we all know they will most definitely not run consecutively

 

[GrandmaBear]

Alex Murdaugh's 74 criminal charges add up, in theory, to 731 years of incarceration​

Alex Murdaugh's 74 criminal charges add up, in theory, to 731 years of incarceration

Here's a track of he complex criminal and civil cases of suspended Hampton, South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh.

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In theory. I certainly hope we don't see that well it's just a white collar crime slap on the hand... Wouldn't be anything new...

 

[noZme]

Timeline: See Alex Murdaugh’s Ties To Alleged Drug Smuggler Who Owned Moselle​

https://www.fitsnews.com/2022/02/09/timeline-alex-murdaughs-connections-to-alleged-drug-smuggler-who-owned-moselle/

To understand Alex Murdaugh’s potential ties to drug trafficking and find answers to the many questions about the missing money in the Murdaugh Murders Saga, we need to look at a man who was a good friend of the family. A man named Barrett T. Boulware.

He died of cancer in 2018

January 1949: Thomas M. Boulware and Randolph “Buster” Murdaugh II worked on the same civil case on behalf of the plaintiffs in Ridgeland Box Mfg. vs Sinclair. Buster Murdaugh was the solicitor at the time.

December 1951: In Beaufort County vs Jasper County, Buster Murdaugh and Thomas M. Boulware worked together for the respondents in the SC Supreme Court case.

August 1977: Barrett Boulware marries Jeannine Morris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin S. Morris of Allendale

January 1980: Island City Boat Sinking (see article below)

• 11 Miami area men were rescued 50 to 60 miles off the coast near St. Helena Sound.
• The men claimed to have been rescued by The Waterworld and Miss Kathy boats. The Waterworld was taking on water. The men claimed to have been traveling from Miami to New York.
• The Miss Kathy was owned by Joel E. Morris of Beaufort and operated by Edward E. Legree (who was later arrested in another drug bust).
• The Waterworld was owned by Barrett Boulware of Allendale and operated by Johnny Morris.
• Apparently no one was arrested.

February 1983: Bahamas Drug Bust — 17 tons of marijuana were seized from a shrimp boat in the Bahamas, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

April 1983: Franklin C. Branch, the star witness in the case against the Boulwares was killed in an apparent vehicle vs. pedestrian incident in Tallahassee, Fla. According to the Tallahassee Democrat (below), Branch was on his way to a bar one night in St. Joe Beach when he “he “walked into the path of an oncoming vehicle.” The article noted that Branch was “scheduled to testify in a drug trial at the time of his death.”



1983: Charges were dropped against both of the Boulwares “after a key government witness was killed when he stepped in front of a car.
Four others were convicted.

 

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May 1983: U.S. District Judge Falcon B. Hawkins barred federal government from re-indicting Barrett Boulware and his father, stating “the grand jury could not present the same charges against Boulware to a grand jury a second time.”


June 1983: Randolph Murdaugh III unsuccessfully argues income tax evasion case in fourth circuit appeals court for Thomas G. Heyward. The case involves plane and possible drug trafficking. (Source article from The Columbia Record)

Late 1980s: Barrett and his wife were sitting in the backseat of a car she had rented for a trip from North Carolina to Miami and back. They were stopped for speeding right near the Georgia and South Carolina line in Chatham County — which is where Savannah is. This is not too far from where we live in Beaufort County and not too far from Hampton County and Allendale County, where the Boulwares lived at the time.

The couple were stopped by a state trooper, who noticed that Barrett had been sitting upright in the car when the traffic stop was initiated but by the time the officer approached the stopped vehicle Barrett had suddenly fallen fast asleep on his wife’s shoulder. The trooper grew suspicious and asked for permission to search the car.

The driver said he had no objection to a search and the front seat passenger, opened the glove compartment and pressed the button to pop open the trunk, where there was 7 pounds of marijuana and 28 grams of cocaine.

Barrett, who was now fully awake, immediately got out of the car to tell the trooper that neither the driver nor the front seat passenger had the authority to grant the search. But by the then the trooper had seen the drugs.

Barrett eventually gave his consent to search the trunk but refused to sign a written authorization. In addition to the drugs in the trunk, pot was also found in Mrs. Boulware’s purse.

The Boulwares were convicted — he was convicted of trafficking cocaine and possession of marijuana and she was convicted of possession of marijuana.

November 1988 Jeannine and Barrett tried to appeal the decision and were denied. FITSNews could not find any record of the Boulwares going to prison.

• Panama City Attorney E.J. Lewis and a man known as “Red” (identified as William O. Lane) were sought in connection with the bust.

Charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute 34,000 pounds of marijuana and conspiracy to import marijuana into the United States were:

• William Raymond Phillips (55) of Carrabelle, FL (Former Attorney); Indicted later in 1985/1986 for Operation Cancer.
• Sarah J. Wyatt (32) of Carrabelle, FL
• Sandra G. Clark (30) of Carrabelle, FL
• Franklin C. Branch (34) of Eastpoint
• Saxby C. Chaplin (29) of Frogmore
• Richard M. Harriott (27) of Frogmore
• Barrett Boulware of Allendale

Barrett Boulware’s father was also charged. Branch was the captain of Boulware’s boat, the Jeannine Anne.

April 1983: Franklin C. Branch, the star witness in the case against the Boulwares was killed in an apparent vehicle vs. pedestrian incident in Tallahassee, Fla. According to the Tallahassee Democrat (below), Branch was on his way to a bar one night in St. Joe Beach when he “he “walked into the path of an oncoming vehicle.”
The article noted that Branch was “scheduled to testify in a drug trial at the time of his death.”

1983: Charges were dropped against both of the Boulwares “after a key government witness was killed when he stepped in front of a car.
Four others were convicted.

May 1983: U.S. District Judge Falcon B. Hawkins barred federal government from re-indicting Barrett Boulware and his father, stating “the grand jury could not present the same charges against Boulware to a grand jury a second time.”
See an article in the Columbia Record below for more details.

June 1983: Randolph Murdaugh III unsuccessfully argues income tax evasion case in fourth circuit appeals court for Thomas G. Heyward. The case involves plane and possible drug trafficking. (Source article from The Columbia Record)
Late 1980s: Barrett and his wife were sitting in the backseat of a car she had rented for a trip from North Carolina to Miami and back. They were stopped for speeding right near the Georgia and South Carolina line in Chatham County — which is where Savannah is. This is not too far from where we live in Beaufort County and not too far from Hampton County and Allendale County, where the Boulwares lived at the time.
The couple were stopped by a state trooper, who noticed that Barrett had been sitting upright in the car when the traffic stop was initiated but by the time the officer approached the stopped vehicle Barrett had suddenly fallen fast asleep on his wife’s shoulder. The trooper grew suspicious and asked for permission to search the car.
The driver said he had no objection to a search and the front seat passenger, opened the glove compartment and pressed the button to pop open the trunk, where there was 7 pounds of marijuana and 28 grams of cocaine.
Barrett, who was now fully awake, immediately got out of the car to tell the trooper that neither the driver nor the front seat passenger had the authority to grant the search. But by the then the trooper had seen the drugs.
Barrett eventually gave his consent to search the trunk but refused to sign a written authorization. In addition to the drugs in the trunk, pot was also found in Mrs. Boulware’s purse.
The Boulwares were convicted — he was convicted of trafficking cocaine and possession of marijuana and she was convicted of possession of marijuana.
November 1988 Jeannine and Barrett tried to appeal the decision and were denied. FITSNews could not find any record of the Boulwares going to prison.




February 1997: Purchase of property owned by James L. Ilhy by Murdaugh Holdings and Barrett T. Boulware for $115,000.

March 23, 2000: Boulware purchases 4157 Moselle Road property from Don Houck for $257.000.

December 2003: Barrett Boulware and Alex Murdaugh purchase property from James L. Ilhy for $115,000.

July 2004: Barrett Boulware and Alex Murdaugh purchase property from William H. Gay for $150,000.

July 2006: Breach of contract filed against Barrett T. Boulware in Beaufort County by Salkehatchie Woods LLC. Alex Murdaugh represents Boulware in this matter.

May 2008: Foreclosure judgment against Barrett Boulware in the amount of $408,664.78.

March 2009: 4157 Moselle Road transferred from Barrett Boulware to his wife for $1.

December 2011: Barrett Boulware purchases Saltketcher Woodlands property from Kelly

September 2012: Barrett Boulware Sr. dies.

April 2013: 4157 Moselle Road transferred from Barrett Boulware to Alexander Murdaugh Sr. for $5.

December 2016: 4157 Moselle Road transferred to Maggie Murdaugh for $5.

Boulware died of cancer in 2018,

July 2018: On July 6, 2018, Boulware granted power of attorney to Alex Murdaugh – authorizing his attorney and business partner to “lease, let, take possession, bargain, sell, assign, convey, pledge, mortgage and encumber, repair, insure and generally manage any and all property, both real and personal, which I own, or may hereafter acquire from any source.”

The instrument Boulware signed just prior to his death also authorized Murdaugh to “sign, execute and deliver any and all legal documents” in his name, and to “deposit any monies received from any source whatever for me, and in my name with any bank, and to draw and deliver checks in my name against said monies and other monies to be deposited in my name or to my credit.”

Boulware further authorized Murdaugh to “do all things necessary concerning any insurance policies, including the right to change beneficiary,” and was even granted control over “decisions regarding my health and healthcare.”

Finally, the document made clear any decisions made by Murdaugh regarding Boulware’s assets would be “binding on myself and my heirs.”

 

[GrandmaBear]

Timeline: See Alex Murdaugh’s Ties To Alleged Drug Smuggler Who Owned Moselle​

https://www.fitsnews.com/2022/02/09/timeline-alex-murdaughs-connections-to-alleged-drug-smuggler-who-owned-moselle/

To understand Alex Murdaugh’s potential ties to drug trafficking and find answers to the many questions about the missing money in the Murdaugh Murders Saga, we need to look at a man who was a good friend of the family. A man named Barrett T. Boulware.

He died of cancer in 2018

January 1949: Thomas M. Boulware and Randolph “Buster” Murdaugh II worked on the same civil case on behalf of the plaintiffs in Ridgeland Box Mfg. vs Sinclair. Buster Murdaugh was the solicitor at the time.

December 1951: In Beaufort County vs Jasper County, Buster Murdaugh and Thomas M. Boulware worked together for the respondents in the SC Supreme Court case.

August 1977: Barrett Boulware marries Jeannine Morris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin S. Morris of Allendale

January 1980: Island City Boat Sinking (see article below)

• 11 Miami area men were rescued 50 to 60 miles off the coast near St. Helena Sound.
• The men claimed to have been rescued by The Waterworld and Miss Kathy boats. The Waterworld was taking on water. The men claimed to have been traveling from Miami to New York.
• The Miss Kathy was owned by Joel E. Morris of Beaufort and operated by Edward E. Legree (who was later arrested in another drug bust).
• The Waterworld was owned by Barrett Boulware of Allendale and operated by Johnny Morris.
• Apparently no one was arrested.

February 1983: Bahamas Drug Bust — 17 tons of marijuana were seized from a shrimp boat in the Bahamas, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

April 1983: Franklin C. Branch, the star witness in the case against the Boulwares was killed in an apparent vehicle vs. pedestrian incident in Tallahassee, Fla. According to the Tallahassee Democrat (below), Branch was on his way to a bar one night in St. Joe Beach when he “he “walked into the path of an oncoming vehicle.” The article noted that Branch was “scheduled to testify in a drug trial at the time of his death.”

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1983: Charges were dropped against both of the Boulwares “after a key government witness was killed when he stepped in front of a car.
Four others were convicted.

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What next? This entire case takes some real train of thought to follow. Been saying all along this is way bigger than we know and wasn't so sure either that connections in this century long powerful family don't go even higher than South Carolna...

The cases are completely different but it is like Daybell in how hard to follow and the number of strange deaths that surround these people. I think Daybell goes farther than we know too and more people than we will ever know were part of things...

The part I don't quite follow here is the Bahamas drug bust. No names are mentioned but I assume that is then the case where the witness was killed and charges were dropped against TWO Boulwares but not others...? Hmmm.

Do we really think there aren't other "big" heads/people involved in something that ran from the Bahamas, Florida, South Carolina...? Now granted Alex Murdaugh is not mentioned here nor Murdaugh mentioned in the later things where Boulware was but we go from other Murdaughs back in the 50s (who also are not mentioned in the later drug things) to Alex owning Moselle which was owned by Boulware and we know they are looking into this house, transfers, Boulware and Murdaugh... So confusing but... And Alex allegedly having a major drug problem and also people around their family that had mysterious deaths on rural roads, etc. as the witness did in Florida with Boulware...

I am going to stop there as this is as hard to follow, more so, than Daybell and I will get mixed up but this thing is huge and in various directions. We have bank presidents and such stepping down already...

And then the bunch allegedly headed to New York on the boat from Miami.... Hmmm. Drugs or a little human smuggling there going on... If we weren't seeing facts come and connections in this case, there are people that would say something this big could never go on, much less for that long...

 

[GrandmaBear]

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May 1983: U.S. District Judge Falcon B. Hawkins barred federal government from re-indicting Barrett Boulware and his father, stating “the grand jury could not present the same charges against Boulware to a grand jury a second time.”
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June 1983: Randolph Murdaugh III unsuccessfully argues income tax evasion case in fourth circuit appeals court for Thomas G. Heyward. The case involves plane and possible drug trafficking. (Source article from The Columbia Record)

Late 1980s: Barrett and his wife were sitting in the backseat of a car she had rented for a trip from North Carolina to Miami and back. They were stopped for speeding right near the Georgia and South Carolina line in Chatham County — which is where Savannah is. This is not too far from where we live in Beaufort County and not too far from Hampton County and Allendale County, where the Boulwares lived at the time.

The couple were stopped by a state trooper, who noticed that Barrett had been sitting upright in the car when the traffic stop was initiated but by the time the officer approached the stopped vehicle Barrett had suddenly fallen fast asleep on his wife’s shoulder. The trooper grew suspicious and asked for permission to search the car.

The driver said he had no objection to a search and the front seat passenger, opened the glove compartment and pressed the button to pop open the trunk, where there was 7 pounds of marijuana and 28 grams of cocaine.

Barrett, who was now fully awake, immediately got out of the car to tell the trooper that neither the driver nor the front seat passenger had the authority to grant the search. But by the then the trooper had seen the drugs.

Barrett eventually gave his consent to search the trunk but refused to sign a written authorization. In addition to the drugs in the trunk, pot was also found in Mrs. Boulware’s purse.

The Boulwares were convicted — he was convicted of trafficking cocaine and possession of marijuana and she was convicted of possession of marijuana.

November 1988 Jeannine and Barrett tried to appeal the decision and were denied. FITSNews could not find any record of the Boulwares going to prison.

• Panama City Attorney E.J. Lewis and a man known as “Red” (identified as William O. Lane) were sought in connection with the bust.

Charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute 34,000 pounds of marijuana and conspiracy to import marijuana into the United States were:

• William Raymond Phillips (55) of Carrabelle, FL (Former Attorney); Indicted later in 1985/1986 for Operation Cancer.
• Sarah J. Wyatt (32) of Carrabelle, FL
• Sandra G. Clark (30) of Carrabelle, FL
• Franklin C. Branch (34) of Eastpoint
• Saxby C. Chaplin (29) of Frogmore
• Richard M. Harriott (27) of Frogmore
• Barrett Boulware of Allendale

Barrett Boulware’s father was also charged. Branch was the captain of Boulware’s boat, the Jeannine Anne.

April 1983: Franklin C. Branch, the star witness in the case against the Boulwares was killed in an apparent vehicle vs. pedestrian incident in Tallahassee, Fla. According to the Tallahassee Democrat (below), Branch was on his way to a bar one night in St. Joe Beach when he “he “walked into the path of an oncoming vehicle.”
The article noted that Branch was “scheduled to testify in a drug trial at the time of his death.”

1983: Charges were dropped against both of the Boulwares “after a key government witness was killed when he stepped in front of a car.
Four others were convicted.

May 1983: U.S. District Judge Falcon B. Hawkins barred federal government from re-indicting Barrett Boulware and his father, stating “the grand jury could not present the same charges against Boulware to a grand jury a second time.”
See an article in the Columbia Record below for more details.

June 1983: Randolph Murdaugh III unsuccessfully argues income tax evasion case in fourth circuit appeals court for Thomas G. Heyward. The case involves plane and possible drug trafficking. (Source article from The Columbia Record)
Late 1980s: Barrett and his wife were sitting in the backseat of a car she had rented for a trip from North Carolina to Miami and back. They were stopped for speeding right near the Georgia and South Carolina line in Chatham County — which is where Savannah is. This is not too far from where we live in Beaufort County and not too far from Hampton County and Allendale County, where the Boulwares lived at the time.
The couple were stopped by a state trooper, who noticed that Barrett had been sitting upright in the car when the traffic stop was initiated but by the time the officer approached the stopped vehicle Barrett had suddenly fallen fast asleep on his wife’s shoulder. The trooper grew suspicious and asked for permission to search the car.
The driver said he had no objection to a search and the front seat passenger, opened the glove compartment and pressed the button to pop open the trunk, where there was 7 pounds of marijuana and 28 grams of cocaine.
Barrett, who was now fully awake, immediately got out of the car to tell the trooper that neither the driver nor the front seat passenger had the authority to grant the search. But by the then the trooper had seen the drugs.
Barrett eventually gave his consent to search the trunk but refused to sign a written authorization. In addition to the drugs in the trunk, pot was also found in Mrs. Boulware’s purse.
The Boulwares were convicted — he was convicted of trafficking cocaine and possession of marijuana and she was convicted of possession of marijuana.
November 1988 Jeannine and Barrett tried to appeal the decision and were denied. FITSNews could not find any record of the Boulwares going to prison.




February 1997: Purchase of property owned by James L. Ilhy by Murdaugh Holdings and Barrett T. Boulware for $115,000.

March 23, 2000: Boulware purchases 4157 Moselle Road property from Don Houck for $257.000.

December 2003: Barrett Boulware and Alex Murdaugh purchase property from James L. Ilhy for $115,000.

July 2004: Barrett Boulware and Alex Murdaugh purchase property from William H. Gay for $150,000.

July 2006: Breach of contract filed against Barrett T. Boulware in Beaufort County by Salkehatchie Woods LLC. Alex Murdaugh represents Boulware in this matter.

May 2008: Foreclosure judgment against Barrett Boulware in the amount of $408,664.78.

March 2009: 4157 Moselle Road transferred from Barrett Boulware to his wife for $1.

December 2011: Barrett Boulware purchases Saltketcher Woodlands property from Kelly

September 2012: Barrett Boulware Sr. dies.

April 2013: 4157 Moselle Road transferred from Barrett Boulware to Alexander Murdaugh Sr. for $5.

December 2016: 4157 Moselle Road transferred to Maggie Murdaugh for $5.

Boulware died of cancer in 2018,

July 2018: On July 6, 2018, Boulware granted power of attorney to Alex Murdaugh – authorizing his attorney and business partner to “lease, let, take possession, bargain, sell, assign, convey, pledge, mortgage and encumber, repair, insure and generally manage any and all property, both real and personal, which I own, or may hereafter acquire from any source.”

The instrument Boulware signed just prior to his death also authorized Murdaugh to “sign, execute and deliver any and all legal documents” in his name, and to “deposit any monies received from any source whatever for me, and in my name with any bank, and to draw and deliver checks in my name against said monies and other monies to be deposited in my name or to my credit.”

Boulware further authorized Murdaugh to “do all things necessary concerning any insurance policies, including the right to change beneficiary,” and was even granted control over “decisions regarding my health and healthcare.”

Finally, the document made clear any decisions made by Murdaugh regarding Boulware’s assets would be “binding on myself and my heirs.”

The very last kind of day I needed to read this lol because my brain hurts. My brain hurts from my own stuff I have going on and focusing on it and this case like wow and wow and wow.

This is unreal. Has been and as hinted, becoming more so and more so. In this convoluted mess though, a few things stand out, the judge wouldn't let Boulware(s) be charged again and even though convicted later on something else, and an appeal was denied, they can't find any records they did any TIME. I have no idea on the rule of law with that and grand juries but as we know, or at least I would think, they could be charged with another crime and probably the same one? You can't be tried twice on the same one but they weren't tried so I really wonder about that... Then they were convicted later on another incident and yet no record of prison time.... So what was that...? Looks good to the public, a conviction and everyone thinks oh good that's over... But then they never go to jail...? Sounds like people know people in very, very high places...?

It is also clear that this wasn't just Alex and one Boulware. A Boulware daddy and son were involved and the same with Alex and this goes way, way back... Alex didn't just follow in daddy's footsteps in law it appears... It seems he was trained in many things in this family powerful US dynasty... It may be SC but it appears to maybe go higher...?

Wish I had time to watch Scott as he will probably have fun with this stuff and clear some up but I don't right now.